The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-12-02

/ with the defeated. The difference in
| views and statements Of the same places,
| scenes and events is remarkable. The
| former are said to be marching through a
/ beautiful and luxuriant country during
the day, and at night encamping where
they are supplied with an abundance
of the best provisions, and all sorts Of
rural dainties. There is nothing of war
/ about the proceeding except It's stimulus
and excitement. On the side Of the poor
Austrians it is just the reverse. In his let
/ ter OF the same date, describing the same
| places and a march over the same road,
/ the writer can scarcely find words
| to set forth the suffering, impa-
1 thence and disgust existing around
| him. What was pleasant to the former
was intolerable TO the latter. What
| made all this difference? asks the Jour
nalist. tOne condition on1y-the French
/ are victorious; the Austrians have been
! defeated. The contrast may convey a
distinctive idea of the extent to which
moral impressions affect the efficiency OF
| the soldier -
So my dear brother, the road you are
| travelling Is the same you have been trav-
| cling a long while, but the difference in
/ your physical condition makes &c look diff
ferent, and therefore the two reports you
| have given of yourself are as widely diff
ferent as the reports In the London Times
| from the two correspondents. Edward
Payson, sometimes so far up on the Mount
/ that it seemed as If the centripetal force
of earth could no longer hold him, some
| times, through physical disorder, was
so far down that it seemed as II the neither
world would clutch him. Glorious Will
lam Cowper was as good as good could be,
and will be loved in the Christian Church
so long as it sings his hymn beginning:
''There is n fountain filed with blood -
and bis hymn beginning, "Oh, for
a closer walk with God;" and his
hymn beginning. "What various
hinderances we meet;" and his hymn
beginning, "God moves in a mysterious
way" Yet so was he overcome with
melancholy, or black bile, that il wRs only
through the mistake Of the cab driver,
who took him to a wrong place instead OF
the river bank, that he did not commit
suicide.
Spiritual condition so nightly Affected
by the physical state. What a great
/ opportunity this gives to the Christian
physician, for he c an feel at the same
time both the pulse of the body and the
pulse of the soul, and he can administer
to both at once, and IL medicine is needed
he can give that, and II spiritual counsel
is needed he can give that-an earthly and
a divine prescription at the same time
and call not only on the apothecary of
earth but the pharmacy of heaven. All,
that Is the kind of doctor / want at my
bedside when get sick-one that can not
only count out the right number of drops,
but who can also pray. That Is the kind
OF doctor have had in my house when
sickness or death came.
do not want any of your pronigate or
atheistic doctors around my loved ones
when the balances of life are trembling.
A doctor who has gone through the medi
cal college, and in dissecting room has
traversed the wonders of the human
mechanism, and found no God In any Of
the labyrinths, Is a fool, and can not doc
tor me or mine. But, oh, the Christian
doctorsi What comfort they have been
In many of our households. And they
ought to have a warm place I'm our
prayers, well as praise on our tongue.
Dear old DIR. Skillmanl MY fathers doc
tor, my mothers doctor, in the village
home. He carried all the condolences Of
all the families for ten miles around. We
all felt better as soon as we saw him
enter the house. His face pronounced
beatitude before he said a
word. He welcomed all of US chill
| dren into life, and no closed the
old peoples eyes when they en-
tered the last slumber. I think / know
what Christ said to him when the old
| doctor got through his work. / think he
was greeted with the words: "Come in,
doctor. / was sick and ye visited me Z"
bless God that the number of Christian
physicians is Multiplying, and some Of
the students of the medical colleges are
| here to-day, and I hail you, and / bless
you, and ordain you to the tender
beautiful, heaven-descended work of n
Christian physician. and when you take
| your diploma from the Long Island Med
| ical College to look after the Pgrishable
body, be sure also TO get diploma from
the skies to look after the imperishable
soul.
Let ali Christian physicians unite with
ministers of the Gospel In persuading
good people that IL Is not because
| God Is against them that they
sometimes feel depressed, but because
| of their diseased body. / suppose
| David, the psalmist, was no more pious
when he called on every thing human and
angelic, animate and inanimate, and from
snowflake to hurricane, 10 praise God
than when be said:
Out of the depths Of he'll have I come unto
! thee o Lord.
Or that jeremiah was any better when he
wrote his prophecy than when he wrote
/ bis Lament ntions," OF that Job was any
| better when he said:
know that my Redeemer 1ivcth,
| than when, covered all over with the pus-
/ tules of elephantiasis. he sat In tho ashes
scratching the scabs of with q broken
piece Of pottery; or that Alexander Cru
/ den, the concordist, was any better man
| when he compiled the book that has helped
ten thousand students Of the Bible than
/ whom, under the power of physical dis
| order, he was hnndcuffod and strait
waistcoated in Bethnal Green Insane Aay-
/ lum.
Another practical use Of this subject n
| for the young The theory is abroad that
/ they must first SOW their wild oats, and
/ afterward Michigan wheat. Lot me
break the dalusion. Wild oats are gem
orally sown IN the liver, aud they can
never DO pulled up. They SO preoccupy
/ that organ that there Is no room for
1 the implantation Of a righteous crop
/ You see aged men about US at eighty,
/ erect, agile, splendid, grand old men.
/ How much Wild oats did they SOW be-
/ tween eighteen years and thirtyf None.
/ absolutely none. God does not very
1 in early life sacrificed swine on the altar
/ Of the bodily temple. Remember q
/ young man, that while In after life, and
H alters years of dissipation, you may, per.
/ haps, have your heart changed, religion
/ does not change the liver. Trembling and
| staggering along these streets to-day arc
I men. all bent. and deca yed, and pFema-
/ turely old, for the reason that they are
| paying for liens they put upon their
/ physical cgtafe before they were thirty.
By early dissipation they put up0n
their body FIRST mortgage, and
/ second mortgage, and third
/ mortgage 70 the devil, and these
/ mortgages are now being forecioged, and
/ all that remains Of their earthly estate
the under taksr wiil soon put out of sight
Stephen 4. Douglas gave the name gi
/ '.squattsr sovereignty" 20 those who weni
/ out and &oek possession of lands and
/ held them BY right ~ preoccupation. TEL
flock o. Sins settle on your heart befor,
/ you get % twenty years of aGs, and
/ they wiil "a afi probability keep posses